certainly wouldn't know it. >> puts things in perspective. we're not playing so well now. you come out here and realize what people really go through in real life and kind of -- you know, it kind of snaps you back to reality pretty quickly. >> i started this two or three years ago and met brandon and we've been buddies ever since. so i make it a point whatever my calendar has it's about being with my buddy brandon. >> reporter: cassandra's oldest son corlin can't talk, but there's no doubt what he thinks about all this. >> they spent a lot of their day in therapy that it's nice to just let loose and have fun. >> reporter: a chance to let loose and the reminder that all kids have big dreams. in arlington beth parker, fox 5 news. >> what a wonderful story. thanks so much for joining us tonight at 10:00. here's brian now with the news edge at 11:00. it could be a winter storm for the history books.

blizzard warnings are in effect from new jersey up to maine. take some live pictures now from foxboro, massachusetts. the storm could bring 1 to 3 feet of snow to parts of new england, winds up to 70 miles per hour. that's hurricane strength. amtrak's northeast corridor on lockdown, thousands of flights canceled. we'll have more on the travel situation in a minute. the snow mixing in with high winds and heavy waves on the coast making it feel like a winter hurricane. we have the story from sandwich beach on cape come. >> reporter: just trying to get out of the car you have to push the door open and it's just blowing the snow. it's heavy wet snow that is just blowing right at you. you know, i'm really not one to wear the goggles, but i didn't have much choice. >> gary mcgrady is in the weather center to tell us what's going on. we're grateful that's not here.

>> i money i never will be issued a pair of those -- i hope i never will be issued a pair of those, but you never know. here's what's going on up there right now. the wind is whipping, the snow is falling and it's worthy every bit of what is going to be described as a blizzard. whether or not it's historic with the snow levels is yet to be determined, but the storm is getting stronger and heavy snow right now wrapping back around the cape into boston down through hartford, bridgeport and it looks like the way things are shaping up new york is probably going to be spared the heaviest of the snow. however, technically they're still in this blizzard warning. everybody you see in red. let me tell you now the blizzard is not defined by the snow that's falling. the blizzard and the blizzard warning is defined by the wind and the visibility. so if you get sustained wind of 35 -- really more than 35 miles per hour for a period of more than three hours or so and

visibility being reduced down to 1/4-mile or lower, then technically by definition you have a blizzard. the winds are really gusting up there right now, 52-mile an hour wind gusts for boston, out at nantucket the 59 mile-per- hour wind gusts and hyannis now gusting to 60 miles per hour. most of the sustained winds up there are a little bit below the blizzard threshold right now, but this storm is still strengthening. it just began to phase a couple hours ago and that is basically what is going to see this thing really begin to get stronger out there as time goes by overnight tonight. just so you know, here are our wind gusts, 28 miles per hour in town, close to 40 for gaithersburg, dulles 45-mile an hour gusts. the wind advisory has been extended for just about everybody west of the bay, okay? there's a couple counties down south that are not in this yet,

may have to be added to it. gusty wind overnight tonight and at least for the first part of tomorrow but again, brian, it's not a blizzard for us. we do have a storm system coming in next week, though, that we'll keep a close eye on. fox 5 accuweather seven-day forecast is coming up. the wicked weather leaving travelers stranded and causing major problems on the roadways in the northeast. fox's molly lyon has more. >> reporter: a monster blizzard now pounding the northeast, massachusetts banning all traffic from roads across the state as the powerful storm brings heavy snow and strong winds here. >> during those heavy bands of snow we expect up to 2 to 3 inches of accumulation per hour making for extremely dangerous conditions. i have declared a state of emergency effective at noon today. >> reporter: the national weather service saying boston is expected to get 2 to 3 feet of snow and this could break the city's record from 2003.

>> this is a storm of major proportion. stay off the roads. stay home. let the public works crews do their job. >> reporter: this massive blizzard the result of two storms merging, one from the west and the other from the south. new york city is also getting dumped on. >> by the time the storm passes early saturday afternoon we're expecting to have accumulations of 10 to 14 inches across the five boroughs. >> reporter: amtrak suspending northeast corridor service and airlines cancelling thousands of flights through tomorrow affecting air travelers across the country including this passenger in arizona. >> our initial flight was canceled. trying to get on stand-by for saturday and earliest flight we can get booked on is monday morning. >> reporter: flooding is a major concern in parts of the northeast especially in the areas hardest hit by superstorm sandy. in boston molly lyon, fox news. conditions normal at local airports tonight, but problems in the northeast could create a

domino effect for passengers here. fox 5's bob barnard has that part of the story. >> this was the scene at union station, amtrak at midday. the new england blizzard upset plans for nearly everybody traveling to and from new york city and beyond. >> i've got a little day trip here and hopefully will get home tonight. >> reporter: you going back tonight? >> yes. fingers crossed. >> reporter: by early afternoon amtrak had suspended service between new york and boston. >> we're down here for a conference and everybody had left this morning. it was pretty quiet after the second session, so we changed trains. you changed twice. >> reporter: others here are cast-aways from our local airports. >> i'm trying to get home to massachusetts. i was flying into hartford, connecticut, but they've canceled my flight. i'm going to take a train to new york city and do my best to get home as soon as the roads open up. >> reporter: foregoing those roads already are some but not all of the low fare bus companies. >> based on what we know, it's

going to be crazy in that part of the country. so we want to make sure to get up there before it gets any crazier. >> reporter: catching the 1:30 bolt bus to new york luke runion who coaches the university of maryland boxing team. >> for me because i had made some plans that were not refundable i'm still heading up, but my team due to the school and their concern with the safety of the students, they'll cancel the event tomorrow and i understand that. >> reporter: here at reagan national planes are moving, but plenty of flights to some northern destinations are grounded. >> our flight was canceled and we don't know what we're going to do now. >> reporter: any other flights today? >> no. there's no flights today. >> reporter: this couple from brazil heading to canada, but the airport in toronto is closed. >> we go to a hotel or we wait here. we really don't know. here they don't know anything, so just wait. >> reporter: you can't get to toronto by mega bus.

it has canceled service to all of its new england destinations and new york city. at last check amtrak service between new york and d.c. is still running close to or on schedule. at reagan national airport bob barnard, fox 5 news. >> remember you can track the winter weather 24/7 with the fox 5 weather app. if you can't get to a tv accident fox 5 is streaming news -- tv, fox 5 is streaming newscasts live to your cell phone. the edge on d.c. tonight council member jim graham says he won't resign and is ready to put ethical questions raised to bed for good. graham spoke out tonight with fox 5 telling us no law was broken, this following an ethics report issued this week, all of this as one of his colleagues is asking the city council take a closer look at graham's actions. matt ackland is here tonight with more. >> earlier this week an ethics board announced it thought there was evidence council member jim graham violated some rules, but at the same time it dismissed the case.

graham has said many times he committed no crime and it's time to move on. council member jim graham wanted to sit down with us tonight to make it clear he has no plans to step down from his ward 1 council seat. >> let's be very clear about this because there's no law broken or any suggestion of it. there is no illegal financial interests and nobody has indicated or suggested that there's any crime. >> reporter: earlier this week the district's ethics board announced it found evidence that graham violated the rules of conduct when he traded a vote on a d.c. lottery contract for a development contract, something graham denies. >> i never promised a quid pro quo that i can recall, you know, and some people may have recalled it. others don't recall it. i don't recall it ever happening, but even if i did, there was no crime. >> reporter: graham says the ethics board didn't even

question him before releasing its reports. >> but here's our ethics board, you know, doing fact finding without any fact finding process and i think everybody is entitled to basic fairness. >> reporter: meanwhile late this afternoon council member tommy wells sent a letter to council chairman phil mendelson requesting he establish an ad hoc committee to look into graham's actions. >> we really have to deal with this, that this continues to erode the confidence that the citizens have in their elected government to be fair, be above board. >> reporter: graham fired back at wells and said this was a political move to support the washington post which has written several editorials on this ethics issue. >> most recently council member wells, you know, who has got one eye on the mayoral race and another on the washington post endorsement, you know. there's politics deep in all of

this. >> council member graham served on the council 15 years and says he hasserved ward 1 with honor and plans to continue to do so. coming up saying sorry for bad behavior, remember the teen who filmed off the judge in florida -- flipped off the judge in florida? >> staying on top of that new england blizzard now airing on www.myfoxdc.com. be right back. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00.  there is no mass-produced human.

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a florida woman who flipped off a judge is apologizing. penelope soto appeared in court last friday on drug charges. during the hearing the 18-year- old began giggling. the judge doubled her bail. very gave him the finger and he gave her -- she gave him the finger and he gave her 30 days in jail and today she apologized. >> my behavior was very irrational and i apologize not only to the court and you, but to my family. >> the judge said soto was a first time offender who admitted to her addiction. he dropped the 30 day sentence and said soto will attend a miami drug treatment program. a new study shows good drivers don't always get the best insurance rates and girl scout cookies are only a click way now. shawn yancy has your fox 5 top five. >> up first tonight why being a good drive doesn't always pay

off. no.-- driver doesn't always pay off. no. 5, good drivers often pay more for auto insurance. a study also found the safe drivers who pay more are often lower income drivers. apparently insurance companies frequently use factors like education and occupation to rate risk instead of driving history. no. 4, couples that drink together stay together. a recent study found couples who keep pace with each other's drinking are less likely to get divorced. experts say know your partner's drinking pattern before you get married since it could become a problem in the future. no. 3, turns out pregnant women taking omega 3 fatty acids to boost their child's brain development later in life may not work after all. a recent review of the evidence finds the studies are inconclusive. experts say they need to do more research. no. 2 is good news. health officials say the worst of the flu season appears to be over. the number of states reporting intense or widespread flu dropped again last week. only 19 states have high levels

of flu activity, 12 moderate, 15 low and six with minimal levels of flu activity. no. 1, today is national girl scout cookie day. if you don't know any girl scouts, there's an app for that, too. once you download the app to your phone you can either your zip code and find the cookie booth that is closest to your neighborhood. that's tonight's fox 5 top five. we can enjoy this weekend while our neighbors to the north are going to struggle through it a bit. >> i feel for them, but wow, that's going to be a lot fordea looks like new york city gets off the hook with this one. it's probably not going to be nearly as bad there as it will be for their neighbors farther north and northeast. here is what it looks like out there. we get to live vicariously through the picks, don't we? you know it's -- pictures, don't we? you know it's cold and blowing, wind gusts in some cases over 50 miles per hour. you've heard all the reporters

talk about the snow is just going sideways and every storm has a character and this is one here. this is a live feed. they've been calling her goggle girl standing out at sandwich in massachusetts there. she's been wearing these goggles all night look. she had on a ski facemask, photographer clearing the lens there. her winds have been gusting close to i would imagine hurricane storm force. i saw a 60-mile an hour gust. why is she just standing out there in the cold? there's got to be a way she can get in the truck or something to get warm. it's unbearably cold out there. she is right here, sandwich right there as you come down into the cape. there's sandwich under the n in providence. it's beginning to switch over to a little rain, heavy bands of snow. earlier they were getting thunder snow and there was a lot of it, too as these

thunderstorms were wrapping up around the center of the storm system coming up over long island and they were getting numerous reports here of thunder snow. it was coming down 2 to 3 inches an hour. this will continue to actually increase over the next few hours because the storm up there is still getting stronger and we've been showing you that pretty much the bull's eye here is going to be boston back out to the west and then down through providence and most of central sections of connecticut there where it's looking like 18 plus, not quite as bad for new york city. the storm has been a little farther offshore. the heaviest convective snow, the thunder snow, has stayed just east of new york city. so they probably will end up with maybe 6, something like that before it's said and done. we're windy overnight 20 to 30 gusting to 50. everybody into this wind advisory now unless you're in prince william county and you're down towards stafford county and spotsylvania county. this is the weekend. it's blustery tomorrow at least for the first part of the day.

winds will be gusty, 35, maybe 40 miles per hour, taper off during the afternoon hours. sunday looks pretty good, a few clouds sunday, 48 degrees there. so if the clouds will hold off till later in the day, it should be real nice. winds are gusting 28 here, 45 for dulles and 28 mile-per-hour wind gusts for fredericksburg, 38 now, cold air to the north of us. it will drain in overnight. when you factor in the wind chill, it feels mainly like it's in the 20s, but it will feel like the single digits for the first part of the day tomorrow. a little patch of snow to the north of us. we may see a flake or two. 28 in town tonight, 23 gaithersburg, 34 for a high tomorrow, only in the 30s north and west for a high and the wind is going to be blowing. it looks like a windy day to start things out tomorrow. it will taper off progressing through the day. here's a look at your fox 5 accuweather seven-day forecast, pretty good through the weekend. we warm up into the 50s monday and tuesday. we got to watch this little

next storm coming for us. there may be snow in it around valentine's day. wizards playing tonight, did they get lucky? we'll have the details, lindsay murphy coming up with sports. the wizards four game losing skid from last week is a thing of the past. the team has reeled off three straight wins and tonight showed up against another playoff contender. bradley beal was back after missing the last five games. it was the wiz and nets at verizon center out of the gate the wizards running john wall with the steal. he finished strong with the left hand, 4-0 wizards, wall ends the night with 15 points and nine assists. 2nd quarter, andray blatche with the wizards now. kevin seraphin with the human slam. wizards out-- huge slam, wizards outscore the nets 32- 20. 3rd quarter, no letdown, wall weaves his way through traffic

and finds nene. he hit a team high 20. the wiz maintain a double digit lead. this play defines the total team domination tonight for the wiz, nene the block, wall off and rubbing showing off a behind-the-back pass to trevor ariza and finishes in silence. 89-74 the final, the wiz 9-7 since the return of wall, improving to 11-14 at home this season. the capitals are struggling to a 2-8 81 and the pressure is starting to mount. today george mcphee met with ownership and said ted leonsis is not happy but has been supportive. last night's game against the pen begins quickly turned to disaster. michal neuvirth started in goal, yanked after giving up two quick scores in the 2nd period. then they go with braden holtby but the same thing. the caps defense surrenders two goals in 11 seconds. they lost 5-2 against their

archrival the penguins. capitals now only have two wins through 11 games, the worst record in all of hockey. hey, jason, chimera, where do you go from here? >> we have been playing games and losing and it seems like we get a goal scored against us and if seems like three or four -- it seems like three or four go. in we're in a rough spot. we've been here before. we can dig ourselves out. we've got the team to do it. it's not like it's impossible. the guys are in a good frame of mind and know we start with one step tomorrow and go from there. he's not just fast on the field, he's quick witted with the media, some of rg3's funniest moments are next. [ woman ] my boyfriend andnd i were going on vacation,

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robert griffin, iii walked the red carpet to accept his a.p. offensive rookie of the year award just last week barely listening if at all. it is major progress considering he had knee surgery less than a month beforehand. griffin told the media he's aiming to be back before the start of the season and when he returns, will he be the same speedster and be as sharp as the rookie who threw 20 touchdowns with just five interceptions. griffin said last week he'll not only be better but smarter. there's not much room for improvement especially when it comes to his wit. rg3 could make everyone scream with his play on the field and make everyone laugh off of the field. >> no, we never shared a burrito.

okay. we ate burritos in the living room. he had his. i had mine. >> i knew soon as i got hit i screamed like a man, of course, but -- i'm really hungry right now. talking to you guys, but -- >> subway. >> there you go. i didn't say it, people. he did. eat fresh, but -- >> and with that that's a wrap on sports, but the news edge will be right back. good night. ♪ making the big romantic gesture. that's powerful. verizon.

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